"Weight Loss Physician" Herman Taller Signed 3.25X5.75 Card For Sale
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"Weight Loss Physician" Herman Taller Signed 3.25X5.75 Card:
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Up for sale "Weight Loss Physician" Herman Taller Hand Signed 3.25X5.75 Card.
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Herman Taller (5 May
1906, Baia de Aramă - June
1984, Warsaw, Poland) was a Romanian-born American doctor who advocated weight loss based on a low-carbohydrate diet with
polyunsaturated fats including safflower oil. He was the author of the controversial best
selling book, Calories Don't Count. The FDA charged
that the 1961 book, which cited a specific source of safflower oil capsules in
the first printings, existed solely to promote the sales of safflower oil capsules. In 1962, FDA Commissioner George
Larrick said: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to
promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity,
cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes
was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a
financial interest." To this, publisher Simon & Schuster replied:
"There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious
and irresponsible innuendoes." The FDA's Larrick went further: "The
book is full of false ideas, as many competent medical and nutritional writers
have pointed out. Contrary to the book's basic premise, weight reduction
requires the reduction of caloric intake. There is no easy, simple substitute.
Unfortunately, calories do count." Despite this, the book
sold more than two million copies. Later, after a trial,
and an unfavorable appeal on the confusion of the jury instructions about
misdemeanors, Taller was found guilty of mail fraud and conspiracy in 1967, fined $7000,
placed on probation for two years, and sentencing suspended on some charges. In
the October 1962 pocket book edition of "Calories Don't Count" there
is no mention of safflower oil capsules. Safflower oil is mentioned as the oil
highest in polyunsaturated fat content at the time of writing. The main
component of the diet is polyunsaturated fats; corn oil and sunflower oil are
also suggested as good sources. The intake of oil recommended in the book is
around 3-4 oz per day. "What got Taller into trouble with the law was that
first printings of the book included an endorsement of a specific manufacturer
of safflower oil (CDC capsules), and copies of the book were used to promote
the capsules."
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